I posted on 25 January to say that I’d finally given in and made a doctor’s appointment to get a physio referral for the presumably RA-related pains and niggles in my ‘shoulder’ (really acromoclavicular joint, but that’s such a mouthful!) and that by the time the appointment came through I’d be feeling better. Well guess what … it has and I am … mostly.

I am still getting various shoulder niggles but nothing like I was back then. Mind you the appointment isn’t until the middle of next week, so who knows, perhaps I’ll feel awful again by then! (Not that I want to. I really, really don’t want to!)

It’s quite surprising how OK I am, given that I had what I thought was a rather nasty fall on Saturday. I’d come back from a lovely afternoon out with a friend to find that hubby had been busy in my absence and washed all the carpets! (This is a pretty big job, although not as big as it could be given that our downstairs rooms are all carpet free and so is the upstairs office.) I was suitably impressed but my head was obviously full of my afternoon out and didn’t have room in it for common sense, so I went upstairs, walked all over the damp carpets, put on my very non-non-slip slippers, got the soles nicely damp and then, carrying an armload of files, went into the office, with its new laminate floor.) SPLAT! THUMP! OUCH!

Five minutes later hubby wandered up (having failed to hear the thump or the loud penguin squawking), saw me still lying on the floor (wondering whether it would be wise to move and whether we had any handy brandy), made one of those meaningless comments that one does make in such situations, like ‘Are you OK?’ when I patently wasn’t, took a step toward me and very nearly landed right on top of me!

Fortunately he managed to right himself, because that would have been such an embarrassing story to explain to the ambulance crew …

I eventually picked myself up, concluded there was nothing broken or even sprained but that I’d have a bruise the size of a planet in the morning, took a couple of paracetamol and whinged for the rest of the evening … obviously the new laminate floor in the office is springier than I’d thought because I didn’t even have a bruise the size of peanut to show for it! In fact, apart from being slightly stiff, I was fine. (And in case anyone else has the same sense of humour as my brother (which is quite unlikely) the floor is also fine!)

Actually my ‘shoulder’ has been slightly better since the fall … but I don’t think I’ll be patenting it as a new cure!

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Augh, falls happen SO fast, don’t they? No chance to stop yourself, it’s just slip and down, thump. As you said. Glad to hear that you weren’t badly hurt, Polly. Falls like that can surely go the other way.

And as for the miraculous shoulder recovery: It’s a good thing to see that therapist anyway. Perhaps he/she can teach you some good exercises to help KEEP the shoulder pain at bay. It will sure be easier to do them if you don’t hurt…

Oh I will DEFINITELY be keeping the appointment, Chelsea – you don’t turn down physio appointments on the NHS – they’re rare as hen’s teeth! The acromoclavicular joints are much better but they’re not 100%. Little silly things like using a pepper mill or stirring the dinner in the pan suddenly make it hurt!

Definitely a question of a sudden thump, and yes I was amazingly lucky. It could easily have gone another way – including a broken arm which would have meant I couldn’t work!

I think I already know the exercises – the same ones she gave me last time … and I HAVE been using them … OK, OK, so not regularly, more when I remember because it hurts, but still … :-) But yes, I will definitely be keeping the appointment.

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